Dublin Life & Culture.

Come Here To Me! is three today.

Come Here To Me! turns three years old today, having begun in November 2009. The last year has been a good one for us, with the blog building a Facebook following recently just passing the 3,000 mark and bringing a ‘Best Of’ the website to the public thanks to New Island Books.

Far from running out of content as we may have once feared, the city and its history has continued to throw up subjects and ideas!

‘Emancipate Yourself’ (Image first posted on CHTM! in November 2012)

Today, the blog has received over 5,000 comments from readers, and published in excess of 1,720 articles, on everything from the back lanes of Dublin to the history of football in the capital. We’ve continued some long running series’ such as the pub crawls of Dublin (albeit with less regularity!) and had new series’ on subjects like the 1911 census returns.

Below, each of the three writers have chosen some of their articles from the last year. All published since November 29th 2011, this is a taster of what’s been produced. Some of these stories feature in the forthcoming book, and others remain exclusive to the website.

Thanks for all your comments, input and support. Here’s to another year!

Seems like an eternity, and that is meant in the nicest way. Seems like ye have been there forever and, hopefully, from what you say, we won’t have to do without you in the future. Unlike poor Pue’s Ocurrencesthe maintenance of which got too much for its excellent team.

Given yer expertise in the city and the lack of responses to a lot of my quiz questions, I am bringing them to the attention of your readers here. The idea is to identify the place in a comment on the post and I will give credit in a subsequent edit of the post itself. The as yet unidentified ones are all in Dublin city.